Islamic State-Claimed Car Bombing Kills 2 In Yemen’s Capital

An Islamic State-claimed car bomb exploded outside a mosque in Yemen’s capital Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding six amid the country’s raging civil war, authorities said.

The bomb targeted the Qabat al-Mahdi mosque in Sanaa’s old city, where rebels known as Houthis and others pray, security officials said. The Islamic State group claimed the attack on a Twitter account associated with the extremists, saying it targeted Houthis, who the Sunni extremists view as heretics.

The security officials, who gave the casualty figure, spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to brief journalists.

This is the second Sanaa attack claimed by the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Yemen this week. On Wednesday, a series of Islamic State-claimed bombings in the capital killed at least four people and wounded 60.